Month: November 2016
French HIV-prevention campaign for gay men heads to court to stop censorship
The French Socialist health minister is fighting what she calls censorship.
Transgender Russian Woman Faces Male Prison Sentence For Theft
Albina Matyunina was convicted for trying to steal $28 before her transition.
New book a boon to LGBTQ substance abuse counsellors
When it comes to treating LGBT substance abuse know this: we are the same but different from our straight counterparts. While treatment and intervention for alcoholism and drug addiction in lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans patients often mirrors that offered to the general population, if it often does not acknowledge the complexity of the experiences, emotions and challenges faced by LGBT patients, it runs the risk of being rendered ineffective, counterproductive or even detrimental to recovery.
First Look At Dustin Lance Black’s – When We Rise
The ABC mini-series event chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today.
United Nations SOGI Mandate Safeguarded in Face of Hostility
The United Nations mandate of the Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) has been safeguarded despite hostile contestation at the 71st Session of the 3rd Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City.
SKAM : How could eating kebab on a park bench in Oslo be so touching ?
Earlier this week I told you about the new hit youth series that everyone is talking about and after season break for 10 days SKAM was back last Friday.